Re: [Fedora-directory-devel] Please review: Bug 227771: FHS: use sysconfdir (/etc) as config file location

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 20:23 -0800, Pete Rowley wrote: > ok > > Richard Megginson wrote: > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227771 >> Resolves: bug 227771 >> Bug Description: FHS: use sysconfdir (/etc) as config file location >> Reviewed by: ??? >> Files: see diff >> Branch: HEAD >> Fix Description: After much deliberation, we have decided that it is >> ok that our dynamic config files are under /etc/fedora-ds/slapd-instance. >> So the config_dir will be /etc/fedora-ds/slapd-instance and the >> security and schema files will go there as well. Since the FHS is >> ambiguous about this issue, and it will be very confusing if the >> configuration files are not under /etc, and there are some agents >> (webmin, cfengine) that do "dynamically" modify config files under >> /etc, this outweighs any considerations about having the server using >> it's config file like an "ascii database". >> The debian folks (who take FHS seriously) won't buy that. The real test is the ability to have a read only /etc. This sounds like a /var/lib thing. Before you get into pain over this, I suggest finding a FHS expert.

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